Monday, December 18, 2006

Jack Dromey: Lest We Forget

This is Jack Dromey (nee Harman). He's the man who started off the Cash for Peerages saga when he blew a gasket after discovering that Lord Levy had been arranging secret loans to the Labour Party behind his back. Dromey is, after all, only Treasurer of the Labour Party. However, he's remained silent since then. Whatever other charges are laid at the end of this, isn't Levy (and whoever else who knew about the loans) guilty of hiding these loans from the officially appointed Treasurer of the Labour Party? This may be raking over old ground, and may not be considered to be as serious as procuring loans for honours, but it shouldn't be forgotten.

Jack was no actor when he went on TVsaying he knew nothing about these loans. He came over as an honest accountant who had been duped by crooks. That isn't to say he was innocent, as he should have put the procedures in place to stop this from happening.

This has hardly been "dealt with", the really interesting detail about where the money went, who operated the accounts, and the extent Brown was involved/knew about this has yet to surface. And since Brown was in charge of the election campaign how could he have operated unless he knew about the availability of these funds, and the fact they were not featured in the Labour Party Accounts.

How many more weeks of this will Dromey, the NEC, the paymasters (Unions), the Cabinet and the next PM (Brown) put up with? They know that with Blair they face massive losses in May, so the pressure is building up for change.

Last year the Lib Dems reflected over Xmas and then went for Charlie in January.

The summer recess was followed by the "Watson" attempted coup, are we going to see the Labour party finally remove Blair in early Jan?

" Guido will be exposing evidence of how the Brownite Smith Institute's "Cash for Access" machine became a "Payments for Policy" racket - with Gordon Brown delivering the policy.

... the institute's director, Wilf Stevenson, told at a Smith Institute meeting "what you are going to say will have a great impact on the government's thinking" - two months before Gordon announced the policy change wanted. "

So which would we prefer? Blair, who at least won the last election, (regardless of our personal views on his policies and methods) , or Brown, who wants to take over Blair's majority without demonstrating a shred of support among the electorate as a whole ?

Or should we all get a chance to vote on the last ten years and choose our government afresh.

The fact that Dromey remained in post means he was right that he as Treasurer did not have access to all bank accounts!!! Unbelievable in itself.

Shortly after the incident Jack paid the penalty being required to call for an illegal immigrant amnesty. He's back in the tent, but I know if I was a detective I'd have some interesting questions to ask him.

Excellent point Iain. Given the Labour Party's financial size, and need for funds, its incredulous that the Treasurer did not know of the loans.

Whether its Carter or Dromey is beside that point. However, far better for it to be Carter who played a pivotal role in organising Labour as an effective force to win the 2005 Election (whilst the rest of us were put offguard by usual Blair/ Brown handbags)

Is Blair still on his Judy Garland farewell tour? Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Queen sacked him while he was out of the country and, no longer being entitled to any of the trappings of office, he had to fly back commercial? Only to find a policeman guarding the door of Downing St and being told that their personal possessions had been put in storage? You must admit, it's a lovely thought.